Common Core Learning Standards: The Six Shifts: ELA and Literacy
Shift 1
Balancing Informational and Literary Text
Students read a true balance of informational and literary texts
Shift 2
Knowledge in the Disciplines
Students build knowledge about the world (domains/content areas) through TEXT rather than the teacher or activities
Shift 3
Staircase of Complexity
Students read the central, grade appropriate text around which instruction is centered. Teachers are patient, create more time and space and support in the curriculum for close reading
Shift 4
Text-based Answers
Students engage in rich and rigorous evidence-based conversations about the text
Shift 5
Writing from Sources
Writing emphasizes the use of evidence from sources to inform or make an argument
Shift 6
Academic Vocabulary
Students constantly build the transferable vocabulary they need to access grade level complex texts. This can be done effectively by spiraling like content in increasingly complex texts
The Six Shifts:
ELA and Literacy
and Literary Text
informational and literary texts
the Disciplines
the world (domains/content areas)
through TEXT rather than the
teacher or activities
Complexity
appropriate text around which
instruction is centered. Teachers
are patient, create more time and space
and support in the curriculum for close
reading
evidence-based conversations about
the text
from sources to inform or make an
argument
vocabulary they need to access grade
level complex texts. This can be done
effectively by spiraling like content in
increasingly complex texts
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